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NASA and its international partners have assigned five new International Space Station crews and made changes to four previously assigned station crews.

Among the newly announced crews for future station missions is the assignment of NASA astronauts Ron Garan, who was born in Yonkers, N.Y.; Mike Fossum, who grew up in McAllen, Texas; Dan Burbank, who considers Yarmouthport, Mass., his hometown; and Don Pettit, who was born in Silverton, Ore. European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers and Satoshi Furukawa, an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, also have been assigned to upcoming crews.

Changes were made to previously announced station crews that include multiple alterations to Russian cosmonaut assignments: Alexander Skvortsov replaces Alexander Kaleri as the Soyuz 22 commander and Expedition 24 commander; Feodor Yurchikhin replaces Skvortsov as the Soyuz 23 commander and Expedition 24/25 flight engineer; Kaleri replaces Dmitri Kondratiev as the Soyuz 24 commander and Expedition 25/26 flight engineer; and Kondratiev replaces Andrew Borisienko as the Soyuz 25 commander and joins Expedition 26 as a flight engineer.